Sealing-wax applier.



A. ENGLA'NDER.

SEALING WAX APPLIER. APPLICATION FILED AUG.25, 1913.

1,150,584. Patented Aug. 17,1915.

PATENT @FTQE.

SEALING-WAX APPLIER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AnoLr ENGLANDER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Eywanowitz, in Moravia, Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sealing- Wax Appliers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to portable sealingwax appliers, and it has for its object to provide a device of this character in which the sealing-wax is melted down at the front end only by being pushed against the fiat side of a hot plate which is under the action of an external impinging or jet flame from a vapor burner.

Another object is to provide a removable holder for the stick of sealing-wax and to provide a tapered tubular liquid-fuel c011- tainer or can with central passage for the reception of the said holder and to serve as a handle for the apparatus.

A further object is to provide the heating plate with a delivery nozzle which is normally closed by a valve used as a spreader for the liquid sealing-wax and controlled by an operating lever extending along the container to within easy reach of the operator.

The embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and the appended claims contain a precise summary of the invention.

- In these drawings :Figure 1 is a longi tudinal section and Fig. 2 a plan of my sealing-wax heating and spreading apparatus.

In operation the stick of sealing-wax, marked 26, projects into the collector 13 and is pressed endwise against the front plate 41 of the latter by a spring 35. The sealingwax is carried in a holder 34 furnished with a cup 36 on the forward end of the spring whose rear end is contained in a cap 37 secured by hinge-joints and pins 38 to the rear of tie tapered container or liquid-fuel can 1. This container is formed with a central passage for the reception of the holder 34, and on the prolongation of the metal body by which said central passage is formed there is placed a band 33 of suitable material for keeping the heat away from the container 1.

A vaporizer-tube 31, closed at front, leads from the forward end of the container 1 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 25, 1913.

Patented Aug. 117, 1915.. Serial No. 786,578.

abgve the collector 13 through the plate 41 an directed vapor-burner tube 32 adapted to pro ect a jet-flame on to the plate 41 at the point where the end of the stick 26 touches the rear of said plate 41.

The vaporizer-tube contains a wick for insuring and regulating the admission of llquid-fuel in said tube in a well known manner, the free end of the wick being loosely pending in the interior of the container 1. The wick does not carry liquidfuel to the flame and does not burn away, the heat from the flame causing vaporization of the liquid-fuel and the vapors then issuing under pressure at the mouth of the burner to feed the flame.

ien the plate 41 becomes hot, the heat is carried by contact to the very end of the stick 26 of sealing-wax Which melts gradu ally away on the face without carrying away more or less solid portions or lumps, the melted sealing-wax being accumulated in the lower part of the collector 18, the out let of which is normally kept closed by a spring-pressed valve 39. A pivoted lever 40 serves as a means for forcing the springpressed valve 39 away from the outlet so as to allow of the egress of an adequate portion of melted sealing-wax from the collector 13 for the formation of a seal, the deposited sealing-wax being spread-out by gently passing the valve-body 39 over the deposit.

Upon the container 1 and the vaporizertube 31 is journaled a cranked lever rod 42 which with its forward arm engages in a flanged screen 43 rotatably mounted with a central sleeve on the vaporizer tube 31 and so formed and arranged that a straight fender-portion of said screen can be turned across or awayfr0m the path of the jetflame directed on to the plate 41.

It is advantageous to provide means for stopping the advance of the stick 26 when the apparatus is laid aside while the plate 41 is hot. This may be eifected by a pivoted lever 45 controlled by a spring 44 and having a screw 46. The end of the screw 46, which can be adjusted in the short arm of the lever 45, passes through an aperture 47 in the holder 34 and presses against the stick 26 and so retains the latter.

To prevent the jet-flame from scorching the paper or other material while the sealing-wax from the collector is being applied, I provide a lower guard-plate 48 fixed to carries a downwardly and rearwardlv the front plate 4]. whereby the flame will be diverted in a direction away from the apparatus. A screw-stopper 49 closes the filling aperture of the container 1. V

I claim V 1. A sealing-wax applier comprising a tubular tapering container for liquid fuel formed with a central passage-tube, a removable sealing-wax holder located in said passage, a collector secured to the forward end of the passage-tube, a heating plate at the front of the collector, and a downwardly and rearwardly directed burner-tube connected to the vaporizer-tube, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A sealing-wax applier consisting of a liquid container with central passage-tube,

liopies of this patent may be obtained for vaporizer above the said passage,

a removable sealing-wax holder located in the passage, a collector at front of and a a burnertube at the end of the vaporizer directed against the front of the collector, means for closing and opening the delivery from said collector,. means for screening the latter from the flame of the burner, and means 7 for preventing heat from the collector reaching the container, as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

, ADOLF ENGLANDER.

Witnesses:

AUGUST FUGGER, ADA MARIA BERGER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 1 Washington, I). C. 

